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Alma Jacinto covered her eyes with her hands as tears streamed down her cheeks.

The 36-year-old from Guatemala was led out of the federal courtroom without an answer to the question that brought her to tears: When would she see her boys again?

Jacinto wore a yellow bracelet on her left wrist, which defense lawyers said identifies parents who are arrested with their children and prosecuted in Operation Streamline, a fast-track program for illegal border crossers.

While their parents are being prosecuted, children are deemed unaccompanied minors, an innocuous term that President Trump is nevertheless doing his best to turn into something menacing. Many of these children are then put into foster care—“or whatever,” as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly infamously put it—where, the government has admitted, hundreds of them simply fall through the cracks and disappear.

A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services told members of Congress on Thursday that the agency had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children it placed with sponsors in the United States, raising concerns they could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.

*edit* I'd just like to add that I'm happy they found a way to re-use all those old Lance Armstrong bracelets...

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“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”

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In certain parts of the nation, that's never left. There are flair ups in activity from time to time.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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The best people.

The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with senior adviser Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration. The president reluctantly agreed with suggestions he strike a gentler tone on immigration in the speech.

Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country — as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.

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Sorry, hovey, you said exactly that. Did you want to clarify your statement?

Sorry, dx, I didn't.

Here is what rufus attributed to me:

"You yourself said just yesterday that you aren't worried about anything this president does until he starts rounding up and arresting people."

I'll wait. Go ahead and find a quote by me where I state that I'm not worried about anything this president does until he starts rounding up and arresting people.

The whole "arrest" discussion centered around a USA Today article, and then someone's question to me about whether I was worried about Trump's threat to arrest journalists. I said that I had no concern about Trump arresting journalists. He simply doesn't have the ability to do that, even as President.

I can't help it that some people (not journalists, by the way) are pizzing themselves worried that Trump is going to round up all the journalists in a gulag. But I don't worry about it.

But how you leap from that to rufus interpretation of my post is something someone else will have to explain.

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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"You yourself said just yesterday that you aren't worried about anything this president does until he starts rounding up and arresting people."

I'll wait. Go ahead and find a quote by me where I state that I'm not worried about anything this president does until he starts rounding up and arresting people.

The whole "arrest" discussion centered around a USA Today article, and then someone's question to me about whether I was worried about Trump's threat to arrest journalists. I said that I had no concern about Trump arresting journalists. He simply doesn't have the ability to do that, even as President.

I can't help it that some people (not journalists, by the way) are pizzing themselves worried that Trump is going to round up all the journalists in a gulag. But I don't worry about it.

But how you leap from that to rufus interpretation of my post is something someone else will have to explain.

Ummm so from the time you said you'll wait for someone to find something, you only got one more sentence out before saying what we're supposed to find. At least make us work for it